Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |
| 32 | We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind . |
| 33 | She would have admired him for that , once . |
| 34 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 35 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 36 | I 'd have got them for five or six quid a window |
| 37 | ‘ He was upset that the boy would try to tap him for that dreadful suit . |
| 38 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 39 | Kate Gaunt , a student at Moray House College will be analysing the results on our behalf , and she may wish to contact you for further details . |
| 40 | ‘ I 'd never have figured you for such a lady 's man , Stevens , ’ he went on . |
| 41 | ‘ No , I was looking for you and I would n't have figured you for this particular humming and vibrant example of the capital 's nightscene . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I should have asked you for more , ’ said Nubenehem . |
| 43 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 44 | I knew I should n't have taken you for that coffee . ’ |
| 45 | Fry felt that he might have left it for good after his latest week of unemployment . |
| 46 | Or we could have left you for dead . |
| 47 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 48 | He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’ |
| 49 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 50 | I might have to hurt you for that . |
| 51 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 52 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 53 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 54 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 55 | Oh I mean many of them were taken out of a book which had in the front price five and sixpence so a so I think that went very well and er I mean Jack was much encouraged by it so much so that he 's going to actually offer to do it for another organisation that he 's connected with |
| 56 | ‘ Can you bear to have her for longer ? ’ |
| 57 | If , like me , you love the country , maybe one way you can help preserve it for future generations is to stay away from it . |